Catṡlechta and other medieval legal material relating to cats
The purpose of this article is to edit and translate the short passages in their entirety so as to make the primary material readily available.
Mutating Monsters: Approaches to “Living Texts” of the Carolingian Era
Mutating Monsters: Approaches to “Living Texts” of the Carolingian Era By Abigail Firey Digital Proceedings of the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript…
Session 4: Lordship, History, and the Dominae of Northern France: Rebellion and the Countess
Rebellion and the Countess Heather J. Tanner (Ohio State University) This paper spoke about rebellion and retribution during the reign of King Philip…
The Discovery of a Normative Theory of Justice in Medieval Philosophy: On the Reception and Further Development of Aristotle’s Theory of Justice by St. Thomas Aquinas
The Discovery of a Normative Theory of Justice in Medieval Philosophy: On the Reception and Further Development of Aristotle’s Theory of Justice by…
Abortion by Assault: Violence against Pregnant Women in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England
According to medieval common law, assault against a pregnant woman causing miscarriage after the first trimester was homicide. Some scholars have argued, however, that in practice English jurors refused to acknowledge assaults of this nature as homicide.
Vultures, Whores, and Hypocrites: Images of Lawyers in Medieval Literature
‘Cut out their lying tongues, and shut their deceitful mouths.’- Bernard of Clairvaux
Lawyers Laid Bare: The Private Lives of Medieval and Early Tudor Lawyers
The results of a two year project will soon reveal new insights into the rise of lawyers in the medieval and Tudor periods.…
Holy War and the Medieval Lawyers
In order to make sense out of the ways in which medieval writers dealt with holy war, it is necessary to look first at the problem of war and its place in the juridical structure, as medieval lawyers saw it.
The Law as a Weapon in Marital Disputes: Evidence from the Late Medieval Court of Chancery, 1424–1529
When Isabelle, widow of Richard Vergeons, commissioned the writing of a bill of complaint to Chancery at the end of the fifteenth century, she was clearly at the end of her tether.
Mishandled vessels: heaving drinks and hurling insults in medieval Welsh literature and law
Medieval men and women took their insults much more seriously than perhaps we do, and often comments or gestures, whether unintentional or calculated, could spark a violent blood feud.
Written Culture and the Late Medieval Manor Court
Written Culture and the Late Medieval Manor Court By Charlotte Harrison, University of Liverpool Session: Rural Experience in Late Medieval England: Manorial Records…
Textus Roffensis: Law, Language and Libraries in Early Medieval England – conference at the University of Kent
A three-day conference on the Textus Roffensis, the priceless 12th century Rochester Cathedral manuscript which was named Britain’s ‘Hidden Treasure’ by the British…
Reflections of Reality in the Manor Court: Sutton-in-the-Isle, 1308–1391
Reflections of Reality in the Manor Court: Sutton-in-the-Isle, 1308–1391 Session: Rural Experience in Late Medieval England: Manorial Records and Law By Erin McGibbon…
Detective Fiction in the Archives: Court Records and the Uses of Law in Late Medieval England
Detective Fiction in the Archives: Court Records and the Uses of Law in Late Medieval England By Shannon McSheffrey History Workshop Journal, Vol.65:1…
Palaces and the Street in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Italy
The late Middle Ages was a period of spectacular urban growth throughout Italy. The city of Florence, for example, began a circuit of walls in 1284 that expanded the area of the city five-fold.
The Decline of the Aristocracy in Eleventh and Twelfth Century Sardinia
Beginning in the eleventh century, Pisa and Genoa — both as communes and in the persons of individual Pisans and Genovese, — followed by Catalans and Aragonese, exhibited an increasing, and increasingly covetous, interest in Sardinia and (especially) its resources; and, already during the twelfth century, the island had fallen largely under continental domination.
Confraternities, Memoria, and Law in Late Medieval Italy
To view medieval brotherhoods or confraternities as associations of laymen or clerics with predominantly religious functions almost automatically leads to the conclusion that fraternity and memoria have much in common.
The Precognition of Crime: Treason in Medieval England and Terrorism in Twenty-first Century America
The Knight of the Two Swords in Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur (1485) tells a story of an invisible knight who without provocation kills other knights.
Peering into the Middle Ages – Brock University Symposium on Medieval Documents
Peering into the Middle Ages – The Brock University Symposium on Medieval Documents Brock University in Canada showcased three incredible medieval documents Friday,…